The Irish Empire – 1926

Folio 170r of the Book of Ballymote – (c1390) explaining the Ogham script.Wikimedia Commons

Evidence that an early Irish Empire flourished in the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries, with teachers and missionaries spreading its learning and culture into Germany, France and Switzerland, has been given in a series of lectures delivered at the School of Irish Studies, 6 West 12th Street, New York City by Mr Benedict Fitzpatrick.